Founded in 1998 and
having over 500 patents, ShenZhen Longsys Electronics Co ., Ltd is a Chinese
company which designs NAND flash based products and modules for various
embedded markets including the industrial market, mobile storage, wireless
storage, smart payment cards, and IOT.

Editor:- August 7, 2017 - Longsys today
announced
that it will be sampling the industry's first 11.5x13mm NVMe BGA SSDs which
support Boot Partitions and the Host Memory Buffer features of NVMe rev 1.3
in Q4 2017.

"As the world's leading Mini SDP SATA DRAM-less SSD module
provider, Longsys has once again made a unique contribution to the storage
industry by pioneering the integration of Marvell's DRAM-less SSD controller
88NV1160 and the new 64-layer 3D NAND into a 11.5mmX13mm BGA package," said
Zhixiong Li, CTO of Longsys.

Editor's comments:- apart from
the obvious applications for NVMe SSDs on a chip in the consumer market I think
the widespread availability of such devices in 2018 could create new
opportunities for disruptive "high availability" BGA array
architectures in industrial market too.

In June 2015 a company spokesperson told me that- "Longsys
is the biggest buyer of Samsung flash in China, and our revenue is $800 million
/year."

But despite their size, and appearance at many past
consumer related electronic trade shows - I have to admit that I hadn't
heard of Longsys before.

Longsys is a new name for the company.

Prior to 2015 Longsys was known as Netcom.

But the
difficulty of trademarking "Netcom" as a brand in some countries
(probably due to it consisting of commonly used elements) led to the company
making the change. (See also:-
naming products,
companies and services.)

One of Longsys's distinctive products
(compared to most other embedded SSD companies) is an
NFC micro SD
(flash card with built in antenna - used for mobile digital signature and
authentication.

Longsys also have a range of what they call "airdisk"
storage modules - which enable Android and iOS devices to share data wirelessly
with these wi-fi compatible flash modules.

Their SSD products also
include a range of M.2 compatible SSDs.

The FORESEE AIR SSD is
specifically designed for the Macbook Air and Pro models - see
datasheet
(pdf) for more details.

Editor:- June 13, 2017 - There are many reasons
to believe that the industrial SSD market will soon become a new attention
seeking cauldron of innovation and architecture. I describe some of these
indicators in a new blog -
not
your grandfather's industrial SSD market.

..

"We looked at where
the large corporates failed to satisfy their clients, such as when low profits
and inconvenience caused those big companies to be disinterested, we then
approached the clients with customized solutions"